Carlee Soto reacts as she learns her sister, Victoria Soto, a teacher at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, was one of 26 people killed in a shooting at the school in Newtown, Conn.

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Pictures of Newtown's Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims are displayed as Senate Judiciary Committee chairperson Dianne Feinstein speaks during a hearing on "The Assault Weapons Ban of 2013" at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, on February 27, 2013.

NEWTOWN, CT - DECEMBER 18: A sign hangs near a cemetery where shooting victim Jessica Rekos was to be buried on December 18, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. Funeral services were held in Newtown Tuesday for Jessica Rekos and James Mattioli, both age six, four days after 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

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Gene Rosen becomes emotional as he describes, in an interview with The Associated Press, Monday, Dec. 17, 2012, that after Friday's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, he took in six students who were sitting at the end of his driveway who had just run from the school to escape the deadly massacre. Rosen ran upstairs and grabbed an armful of stuffed animals he kept there. He gave those to the children, along with some fruit juice and sat with them as two of the students described seeing their teacher being shot. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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Frank Kulick, adjusts a display of wooden crosses, and a Jewish Star of David, representing the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, on his front lawn, Monday, Dec. 17, 2012, in Newtown, Conn. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Newtown Police Officer Maryhelen McCarthy carries flowers near a memorial for shooting victims Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012 in Newtown, Conn. A gunman walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Friday and opened fire, killing 26 people, including 20 children. The flowers and other items were taken to nearby Saint Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

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Onlookers embrace as firefighters and other volunteers reorganize a memorial for shooting victims near Sandy Hook Elementary School before erecting a shelter over it, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012 in Newtown, Conn. A gunman walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown on Friday and opened fire, killing 26 people, including 20 children. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

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A photo of Caroline Previdi, one of the victims of the December 14, 2012 elementary school shooting, is set up at a makeshift shrine to the victims in Newtown, Connecticut, December 17, 2012. Funerals began Monday in the little Connecticut town of Newtown after the school massacre that took the lives of 20 small children and six staff, triggering new momentum for a change to America's gun culture. The first burials, held under raw, wet skies, were for two six-year-old boys who were among those shot in Sandy Hook Elementary School. On Tuesday, the first of the girls, also aged six, was due to be laid to rest. There were no Monday classes at all across Newtown, and the blood-soaked elementary school was to remain a closed crime scene indefinitely, authorities said. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel DUNANDEMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images

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A photo of Caroline Previdi, one of the victims of the December 14,...

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A memorial is shown near the Sandy Hook School after a mass shooting at the school in December, 2012. The killings with a semi-automatic assault rifle rekindled the gun debate in the U.S.

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Neil Heslin, father of six-year-old Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim Jesse Lewis, holds a picture of him with Jesse as he testifies during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee February 27, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The committee held a hearing on The Assault Weapons Ban of 2013.

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Gun control supporters march down 4th Street during the StandUp Washington March and Rally for Gun Control on Sunday, January 13, 2013 in Seattle. Marchers called for sensible gun control laws in the wake of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.

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A bucket of gun control buttons at the StandUp Washington March and Rally for Gun Control on Sunday, January 13, 2013 in Seattle. Marchers called for sensible gun control laws in the wake of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.

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Firearms Training Unit Detective Barbara J. Mattson of the Connecticut State Police holds up a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, the same gun used by Adam Lanza in the Sandy Hook School shooting, for a demonstration during a hearing of a legislative subcommittee reviewing gun laws, at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, Conn., Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. The parents of children killed in the Newtown school shooting called for better enforcement of gun laws Monday at the legislative hearing. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

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This undated identification photo released Wednesday, April 3, 2013 by Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, Conn., shows former student Adam Lanza, who authorities said opened fire inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, killing 26 students and educators. (AP Photo/Western Connecticut State University)

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Supporters of gun control gather on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington on Friday, during a vigil for the victims of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Ct., and to call on President Obama to pass strong gun control laws.

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Supporters for gun rights gather outside the National Shooting Sports Foundation headquarters in Newtown, Conn., Thursday, March 28, 2013. Search warrants released Thursday, March 28, 2013, revealed that an arsenal of weapons including guns, more than a thousand rounds of ammunition, a bayonet and several swords was seized at Adam Lanza's home. Lanza killed his mother, Nancy Lanza in their home before he forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn, killing 26 people.(AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

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Connecticut State Police lead a line of children from the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. on Friday, Dec. 14, 2012 after a shooting at the school. Hundreds of children at the school that day survived, but the horrors have been especially difficult to overcome for some of the 6- and 7-year-olds who witnessed the bloodbath, even as the school year resumed in autumn of 2013. (AP Photo/Newtown Bee, Shannon Hicks)

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A police road block is at the entrance to the new Sandy Hook Elementary School on the first day of classes in Monroe, Conn., Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. The school, formerly known as Chalk Hill School, was overhauled specially for the students from the Sandy Hook School shooting in Newtown, in the neighboring town of Monroe, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

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A hearse carrying the remains of Mary Joy Sherlach arrives at St. Stephen Church, in Trumbull, Conn., prior to a funeral mass Dec. 21st, 2012. Sherlach was a school pychologist at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, and died in the mass shooting there last Friday.

NEWTOWN, CT - DECEMBER 18: A casket carrying the body of shooting victim Jessica Rekos, 6, is brought out after her funeral at the St. Rose of Lima Catholic church on December 18, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. Funeral services were held at the church for both Jessica and James Mattioli, 6, Tuesday, four days after 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

In an attempt to use the Sandy Hook massacre to promote its anti-gun control agenda, a Seattle-area group has announced plans to observe "Guns Save Lives Day" on the anniversary of the Connecticut mass shooting.

Supporters of the event say they'll use the Dec. 14 anniversary of the deaths of 26 people – including 20 children – at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school to protest what they see as unfair attacks on gun ownership.

The event was announced Thursday by The Second Amendment Foundation, based in Bellevue, Wash., and several associated groups. Foundation President Alan Gottlieb said he and others hope to assure the nation they’re working to “thwart government gun-grabbers.” Congress has yet to enacted any of the gun control measures floated following the school shooting.

Larry Ward, founder of co-sponsor DefendGunRights.com, said events will be planned around the country “to counteract what certainly will be a day of activism and misinformation from the gun prohibition lobby.”

“The Founders understood what many modern-day politicians do not: that Americans are safer – from crime and tyranny – when they have the means to defend themselves,” Ward said in a statement.

Gottlieb went on to assert that the Newtown tragedy would not have occurred if some at the school had been armed.

“No one at Newtown should have been a victim,” Gottlieb said, “and no one in the future should be victimized by laws that do not allow people to defend themselves.”